Tech Tools and Links

Frequently Used Links:

• Google Apps
• VoiceThread -- Digital Storytelling
• Glogster -- Digital Posters
• Prezi -- Dynamic presentations
• Flickrstorm -- Creative Commons images
• Behold -- Creative Commons images

Resources for words and search terms:

• Visuwords -- Dynamic, graphic dictionary.
• Wordle -- Create word clouds for any text.
• Tagxedo -- Beyond Wordle! Word clouds with style -- create images made up of word clouds

Resources for notes and sharing notes:

• Wallwisher -- A new approach to a discussion board: an online notice board with post-its!
• Lino -- An online corkboard!
• Corkboard.me -- Exactly what you think it is.

Resources for presentations:

• Prezi -- Very cool, whole new way to imagine the presentation.
• Ahead -- Dynamic presentations, similar to Prezi, but a bit more streamlined and contained.
• Glogster -- Create interactive multimedia posters.
• Slide -- VERY COOL! Almost a mix between a slideshow and a glog. Check it out!
• VoiceThread-- Amazing interactive slide shows.
• Sliderocket -- Presentation program, like a very cool version of PowerPoint.
• Animoto -- They claim it's the end of boring slide shows!
• XtraNormal -- Super cool! If you can type, you can make short animated movies!
• MuseumBox -- Create amazing, innovative, interactive museum boxes -- "This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box."
• Atmosphir -- Create your own video games.
• Empressr -- Create rich media presentations that you can then embed. A very cool, very easy to use presentation tool, similar to ppt or keynote.
• Smilebox -- Really cool slideshows; lots of cool artsy effects and tons of templates to help you.

Resources for utilizing multimedia:

• Embedr.com -- Make playlists of videos to embed in your wikis, blogs, etc.
• TubeChop -- Edit youtube videos -- allows you to take out just a portion of a youtube video for use.
• KeepVid -- Download youtube videos.

Resources for creative images and sound:

• Pixlr -- Photo editing program, like Photoshop.
• Kerpoof -- Cool animation studio.
• Voki -- Talking avatars.
• Blabberize -- Make any picture talk.
• Audacity -- Free, cross-platform sound editor -- record a sound, edit it, save it as an mp3, and embed it.
• Photo Story 3 -- Microsoft's answer to Mac's iLife.

Resources for creating timelines:

• Dipity -- Timeline creator.
• Capzles -- Timeline creator.
• Timetoast -- Timeline creator.

Resources for collaboration and peer review and editing:

• CrocaDoc -- "Mark Up and Review Documents Online --Collaboratively highlight and comment on PDFs, Word documents, images, and more!"
• SharedCopy --"Annotate and collaborate on any website!"
• Typewith.me -- Write like your are IMing.

Resources for sharing files and bookmarks:

• Slideshare -- Share your presentations, documents, and films.
• Zamzar -- Free online file converter -- Converts files from one type to another. Can make pdfs into editable documents.
• Delicious -- Create and use bookmarks on any computer and share them with others. (This is one of the most useful tools ever!)

Resources for Goolge Earth:

• All things Google Earth
• Google Earth Gallery -- The world at your fingertips! Google Earth tours of all kinds of amazing topics.

Mr. Barth's Cool Tools blog at UWM:

Internet Literacy:

Screencasts:

• Screencast on how to publish Powerpoint-type presentation in Google Docs and embed work in Wikispaces
• Screencast on how to publish Word-type document in Google Docs and link to work in Wikispaces
• Screencast on how to create pages in Wikispaces
• Screencast for setting up your paper in MLA Style in Microsoft Word
• Screencast for setting up your paper in MLA Style in Google Docs

For teachers:

• SMARTBoard Resources
• Click here for technology tools for teachers!
• Ms. Reimer's 7th grade English wiki